by François-René de Chateaubriand · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782038700305
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«Atala» is the short novel by François-René de Chateaubriand, published by Editions Larousse in paperback (142 pages, in French).
Set in eighteenth-century French Louisiana, it tells the tragic romance between Atala, a young Christian native woman, and Chactas, an Indian warrior, bound by an impossible love marked by faith and destiny. The novel stands out for its Romantic style and evocative descriptions of the American wilderness.
Originally published in 1801, it is considered one of the sources of inspiration for later Romanticism. Edition from the Classiques Larousse collection.
Suitable for students of French and for readers wishing to discover a classic of French Romanticism in its original language.
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who influenced French literature of the 19th century. Descended from an old aristocratic family from Brittany, Chateaubriand was a royalist by political disposition. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1822 to 1824 and as the French ambassador to Sweden, Prussia, the United Kingdom, and the Papal States.
